I come across these things all the time. Sometimes I post them here, sometimes not, but in the interest of not clogging up the forum with so many threads, I thought maybe having one thread to post weird news stories would be a good idea. If anyone else wishes to use this thread to post their own findings, please feel free.

This one sounds too ironic to be real, but it is. A guy was stabbed to death in Lethbridge, Alta., Canada. The first homicide in two years for the tiny town. His name? Brent Stabbed Last. No kidding.

A woman in Texas was doing the hula-hoop when a basketball fell out of nowhere and got stuck between her belly and the hoop. The man who threw the basketball, one Francis Hurla, had expected the ball to go right through the hoop. He hadn't expected it to get caught and pinch an artery in the woman's abdomen and kill her, police said. Mr. Hurla's sister-in-law, however, who had been throwing the ball around with Hurla, admitted that a little smile came over her brother-in-law's face when the basketball was pushed through the hoop by paramedics.

Like with this story... I hear they make excellent emergency flotation devices...

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand scrambled on Wednesday to airlift condoms and other emergency health supplies to victims of its worst floods in decades to prevent a feared surge in unplanned pregnancies. Five helicopters began transporting medicine and other provisions from the Public Health Ministry in Bangkok to seven locations in the central province of Lop Buri, which has been severely inundated.

'Local volunteers told us that villagers have nothing to do during the floods, so to prevent a baby boom we added condoms too,' an official at the Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand told AFP.

The unusually severe monsoon floods have killed 237 people and affected three-quarters of the country, including the northern city of Chiang Mai and the ancient capital of Ayutthaya, both popular tourist destinations.

Russian police detain man after finding remains of 20 female corpses in flatRussian police have detained a man after finding the remains of at least twenty female corpses in his flat that he had dug up from cemeteries in the dead of night as a hobby.